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I have always just ran what came with my bike as far as cables. I am now running Sram Red which I believe come with Gore cables. The Powercordz has now caught my eye and I was wondering if some people could give me their thoughts and experiences on the product. Looking to do brakes and derailuers and was wondering on shifting performance and weight savings is worth the investment.

it is good if you want to shave off every last gram on the bike. in terms of performance, i have had good and bad experiences. personally, i like steel cables the best and only used powercordz to shave off every last gram i could on the weenie bike.

downside: fiddlier to fit than standard cables/outer, once fitted can't reliably remove/refit powercordz as the first clamping squishes the cover of the cable, if the cable cover is damaged you need to replace the cable

the nokon bits do take a few rides to snug in, so early on you have to use barrel adjusters to reset tension, once it settles things are very stable long term, with a new install i leave a loop in the free ends of shifter cables so that after a few weeks i can bottom out the adjusters and pull through a bit more cable to reclamp for the final time

I am parital to the Gore Rideon pro and sealed cablesets but dont like how the cable coating flakes off over time and am curious if anyone has used replaced the Gore cables with Powercordz while retaining the Gore housing and liners?

I was a really early adopter of power cables. I wasn't that impressed on the shifting quality. the cables were a hair bigger in diameter than the steel counter part. Then it was you set it once and you can't move it again. I think now they are perfectly in line with steel cable diameters.

The cables were a hair bigger in diameter than the steel counter part.

Yep, thats exactly what I learned this weekend. Both the Powercordz deraileur and brake cables seem to be ~.5mm larger in diameter than the equivalent cables from both Gore and Jagwire. Although the deraileur cables seemed to be a bit closer to steel than the brake cables, the Powercordz deraileur cables would not slide into a Gore Ride-on liner without being forced and when I tried to insert them into a length of Jagwire Racer housing, there simply was way to much stiction to even consider a full install.

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